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CONTEST OVER! WIN FREE TIX! 17th Annual Bakersfield Festival of Beers!
Topics: Bakersfield, Bakotopia, Festival of Beers, April, 2009, contest, Free Tix
Posted by matt Wed Apr 1, 2009 17:55:55 PDT
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0 responses 41 comments Location: 3805 Chester Ave, Bakersfield, CA 93301

CONTEST IS OVER!
CHECK YOUR E-MAIL TO SEE IF YOU'VE WON!
STAY TUNED FOR MORE CONTESTS!
THANKS FOR ENTERING!
SEE YOU AT THE FEST!
(CLICK FLIER FOR TICKET INFO!)

SATURDAY, APRIL 25!
  STRAMLER PARK, BAKERSFIELD, CA!
ALL WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:
TWO (2) VIP TICKETS TO THE FESTIVAL!
HERE'S HOW TO WIN!

-You must have a Bakotopia profile to enter. If you haven't got one, sign-up! It's EASY!

-Sign In to Bakotopia with your username. Don't forget to fill-in your profile!

-Post a public comment below to this post, and tell us why you need these tix - be creative - better chance of winning if you're funny. I need a laugh, yo!

-Make sure your username is public, so we know who you are.

-21 & OVER ONLY!

www.bakersfieldfestivalofbeers.com

**Must be 21 or older to enter & win. Bakersfield & Kern County Residents Only! No employees or family of The Bakersfield Californian and it's affililiates may participate.

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Comment From: RamonZamoraJr

want me to tell you why i need the tickets? fine, i'll do just that. i can actually say i am the only person on this site that needs them. i just turned 21 on march 21st and i still have not even drank a beer! i mean, what kind of loser does that? whats even worst is that i even bought beer on my birthday and it wasn't even for me! (the person was 21 but forgot their wallet. i'm a good citizen) seriously, i'm a pathetic waste of sperm. (ouch that even hurt my feelings) but yeah. who else has a better reason? Comment From: msjosey

I missed it last year because I was at Coachella. Let's see the year before that I drank so much I passed out on the grass outside the museum, my ride took me home I puked all evening while my wonderful son held my hair helping me not to get puke in it. When I was done I finally got up fell through a glass case in my bathroom cut my arm, I have a tiny scar from it and I still haven't gotten the glass fixed. SO THIS year I need to go so I actually make enjoy it this time and besides Coachella is a week earlier so I can make it this time ;) Comment From: LomelEZ

BOTTOM LINE: I am a victim of this struggling economy and I cannot afford it. I would really love to go.

 

Comment From: matt

Hahahaha!! Donni, you're a top contender! Comment From: viking53

We have been broke for so long that we have not been to this festival for over 10 years!!! Help me!!! viking53 Comment From: hanajayne73

***ECONOMIC BAILOUT*** Okay, so I ask myself everyday while I watch the news...where the hell is my bail out? And then I see this, "win tix to beer fest" muahahahahaha! This is my bail out! But why do I deserve them more than anyone else? huh, I prolly don't, but here I sit, at work as a lowly underpaid social worker,went to school for like the last 10 years so I could have more earning potential, and I am still broke, spent my tax refund paying all the crap I didn't pay last year...so, ya I am pathetic and whiney and most of the time I just daydream about when I can go out, hear some live music, and down a nice cold beer(or 10). Forget trying to fix my problems...I willingly choose to drown my sorrows in the nearest hole in the wall bar listening to some good music! HELL YA!! So really I don't deserve the tix at all, in fact it would be enabling me...hahahaha! I guess if I don't win tix and I can't find some unsuspecting victim to take me, I will have to rob a bank and as a last resort I could, well, I work in a building on the corner of Union and California, so you can imagine. HAHAHAHAHA! Ugggh, I digress =) PICK ME! PICK ME! PICK ME! (shameless begging---gotta love it!) Comment From: supersonik

Back in the day, my band played for the beer festival so I didn't have to buy tickets. It was a good thing i worked for my beer because I didn't have the money to buy any. Why.........Why you ask? You got all day? Kids....kids.....kids and more kids, and then came grandkids and more grandkids.......16 of em later, cars for my kids, my kids burned up their cars I bought them more cars, rented them apartments, paid their utility bills, paid for birthday parties, then with the economy bitch slapping me on the left cheek, then the right, now more on the left, the right, the left (you get the idea)I thought I would help a friend by "Loaning" my PA system to them. When I got it back, it was missing 1/2 the cables, boom stands, etc. Now my old band wants to play..I can't afford new cables, I can't afford beer. I know their is a brighter part coming to my life (where the hell is it?), but being the nice guy I am, I will be patient for a while because maybe, just maybe I could get something free in my life.......like many small glasses of beer. So, Bakotopia World tell everyone: "Pick Lester W" Comment From: JtotheLO

I will tell you exactly why I need these tickets... I really need to get some... beer, of course. Hee hee. Beauty is in the eye of the BEER holder... AND I gave up booze for Lent this year. Love you Matt! Comment From: QuienEsTuPapi

I would love to win these tickets because I sent art mann an email asking him to come...he was at villagefest and I was lucky enough to make it on air screaming drunk nothings like the drunktard I was at the moment, I look forward to going so i can hear people at work and friends make fun of me for weeks for being a drunktard on tv again kthnxbye Eddie G. ps I would also love to go because I like beer,girls that are drunk and great live music this event has it all! I just hope my favorite band plays near the porta poties because thats where I like to pick up the ladies...they all eventually make a stop there haha ;o) Comment From: lzblueslady

I believe that there might be some good blues music to go with that beer and I'm all about that! Throw me some tics PLEASE!!! Comment From: krittyBRC

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Comment From: iluvmyarmyguy

first and foremost, IM GOING THROUGH A DIVORCE AND I CAN'T CHANGE MY DAMN SCREEN NAME ON HERE!!! lol who the hell doesn't need massive alcohol consumption in this time of turmoil. secondly, all my friends are going to coacehlla without me! im a broke son of a b..... yeah i work, but no i do not make enough money to even pay my freakin car registration! im about to have to spring for the ghetto red tag in the back window! (any BPDs reading this, please disregaurd, thanks) LUDICROUS! but anyway, yeah i could definitely use a night of drunken debauchery. and hell, what better place to do so, than, my friend, THE BEERFEST!

Comment From: FatChickMafia

If elected to win free tickets to Bakersfields Beerfest, I promise to turn my hair into never-ending waterfalls of Pabst Blue Ribbon. I promise, to you, that the tips of every last one of my fingers and toes will become magically regenerating martini olives, and my tears will spring forth expensive champagne or vermouth into thine cups. When I eat bad mexican food, I swear that with the power of free Beerfest tickets, I will spew mudd butt consisting solely of delicious hot dogs and occasional pieces of chocolate cake from Jakes Tex Mex (if you ask nicely.) So, Bakotopia staffers, honorable citizens of the armpit we all know and love, elect me your Beerfest ticket winner, and you will never go hungry for snack foods or cheap liquor ever again - for hope, fatty foods, and liquor spring eternal from the orifices and appendages of my body. Goodnight, and good luck. Comment From: cruiznkoRn64

TOP TEN REASONS WHY I NEEEEED TO GO TO THE 17TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF BEERS

1. With this year’s drought, the farming company I work for can only afford water for the orange trees and they are making all of us go thirsty out in the field so we don’t lose our crop.

2. Hops are the only other plant besides Cannabis in the botanical family Cannabaceae. Comparison of their effects would be ideal at the Festival.

3. Studying the experimentally induced intoxicated behavior of ants in 1888, naturalist John Lubbock noticed that the insects that had too much to drink were picked up by nest mates and carried home. I would like to conduct verification of this experiment in humans at this year’s Festival.

4. It is a known fact that George Washington had his own brewhouse on the grounds of Mount Vernon. If I come to the Festival, I will convince them all to come down the Bluffs and bring Ole Georgie with them.

5. Because A 12 oz. beer has fewer calories than two slices of bread and contains no fat, everyone, including yours truly, can revel in the knowledge that the beautiful ladies at this year’s Festival will be working on their fitness while enjoying the day’s events.

6. Prized possessions were often buried with the remains of important officials in ancient Bakersfield. A glittering metal tube discovered in the tomb of General Beale proved to be a golden straw for sipping beer.

7. Last year, I had the interesting responsibility to taste over 35 beers in less than an hour and a half. I need the opportunity to savor each type of beer over several hours this year.

8. Historians have called beer the national drink of ancient Bakersfield. They appointed a "royal chief beer inspector" to protect its quality. It would be a shame if I were not there to deem this year’s selections suitable!

9. Thomas Jefferson wrote much of the Declaration of Independence in Oildale’s Trout’s Tavern. Later, after two terms as President, he experimented with brewing techniques during his retirement years in Rosedale.

AND THE #1 REASON WHY I NEED TO BE IN ATTENDANCE:

10. The folks at the Guinness keg booth need me to help administer that nectar of the Gods as with last year. Let’s face it, if I don’t show up, there may be a shortage of the stuff or lack of good head due to poor pouring technique! And NO ONE wants to see that happen.

Comment From: twinkie

I can't top Donni's.. hee hee... I crack up everytime I see that picture. Comment From: caron

I really want to win these tickets! My new husband and I had our first date at the brews in the village 2 years ago, he was performing then we walked around, he was so shy and I just couldn't control myself and went in for the kiss, but at the last second I panicked and kissed his cheek instead. We were married in December and our reception is in May, if it weren't for this event, he and I would not have this beautiful life we share today. Thanks, Rob and Caron Thomas Comment From: AltPinUp

Mine isn't funny its more tragic... One year we were going to go I was prego no fun for me then The year before that I was sick and this year oilfield work is slow a lot of them have been laid off including my husband.... plus I want my old man to drink the stuff his friend had last year and make him have green tar poop and vomit lol they couldn't tell the difference between the two Comment From: BOLTAR828

WELL I JUST WAN'T TO SAY ROMANCE IS DEAD.AND I NEED THOSE TICK'S TO DROUND MY HEART,JUST ONE MORE TIME.AND I PROMISE TO POST ALL MY PHOTOS OF ALL THE HOT DRUNK WOMEN.AMEN Comment From: illRockUrCasbah

My long-time girlfriend had wanted a ring, so I proposed to her and she happily accepted. Just this last week, a week after I put a ring on her finger, she dumped me, citing as a reason: "I don't love you anymore." I was pretty torn up about it (kinda still am) but now that I'm both single and above the age of 21, I've decided that now is the time for me and my single buddy to have wild, drunken adventures with wild, drunk single women. And this beerfest (I haven't been to one) sounds AWESOME. Comment From: Jessstatic

Ive never been to a "festival" of beers I didnt know there was another beer holiday!!Beer is great!! Beer inspires me in ways sobriety never could!! How better to show the greatness of beer than to have a festival which celebrates the wonderful things beer gives each and every one of us...for example: Beer makes me the worlds best singer!! And beer makes me wanna be friends with everybody!! You can drink beer til you forget how to feel feelings...!!! I can make fun of stupid teenagers by saying "Hey Im gonna go to a bar and drink beer cuz Im over 21 and you arent." Beer makes everyone seem way more attractive for some reason (magical powers!!) Beer is the least expensive means of escaping reality-I mean even some dollar stores sell Steel Reserve like 2 for a dollar (thats just fifty cents each to take a break from our cruel cruel world!!!!) Why...Im drinking beer right now and life couldn't be better!!! Who better to give tickets to than someone so enthusiastic about the greatest beverage in the world.....BEER!!! (especially Newcastle...ah if God drank beer it would be Newcastle) Comment From: AlwayzDreamin

Why give me the tickets? Cuz I'm the mf princess & I deserve all I get ;D Plus I'm cute... check out my myspace: www.myspace.com/sb_girl Comment From: Thesilenceclub

I need festival of marijuana tickets. Comment From: autumnlynne76

I ask that you please consider me for a pair of the fabulous tickets you hold there before you. I can give you a couple good reasons why I deserve those tickets! First I relocate to Bakersfield for this "fabulous job" back in September in the oil industry that was supposed to be a "slam dunk, done deal" job that I wouldn't have to worry about ever losing (mind you, I left a job I had been with for two and a half years that was stable)...to then got laid off two months later, the day before Thanksgiving because the home office decided that the local office here didn't need the position after all! So basically I moved my entire life (by myself with no relocation assistance) 200+ miles and 3 counties away from stability and family for nothing! I've been looking for work ever since! I'm out every day, passing out resumes and filling out on-line applications, and still, no success. I can barely afford toilet paper and food, let alone beer for my fridge on what the state considers "fair" pay while unemployed. I pay my rent and utilities, and once that is done, and I get gas for the week, I have nothing left for "extra" activities! I haven't been able to go out and enjoy anything since the lay-off, and I think it would be great to have ONE day where I can cut lose, and drown all my sorrows and worry with delicious, ice cold beer, and forget that my unemployment is going to run out soon! Heck, my birthday was back in February, and I didn't even get to enjoy that either!  What kind of birthday is it if you're not out with friends getting hammered and dancing on tables??  And now, I'm also a full-time college student (figured it was a good time to go back to school and add more to the resume that seems to be ignored...kidding! I had wanted to go back and get my degree for a while!). I just had what should have been a great, well deserved spring break, but being broke, all I did was stay home and do nothing but fill out even more online applications and mail out more resumes and cover letters, or when I did leave my casa, I pounded the pavement going to places in person. What kind of break is that?  College spring break is supposed to be so memorable because you don't remember it from drinking so much!!  I have my first 4.0 EVER, and I couldn't even celebrate. But, even with all this "bad luck", I still love it here in Bakersfield. The people are great, I love the city, and I've made a few friends along the way. I just think I deserve one day of pleasure-filled, innocent (okay, not so innocent) FUN again since I haven't had anything remotely close to "fun" since November. Is that too much to ask for? (Well, besides asking for a job offer to finally come my way!)

Comment From: tinog

please chose me for the free tickets cus I will go and represent Bakotopia in a very respectful manner . I wont get drunk and puke all over the place and make a fool out of my self . honest injun. I am a mature gentleman and have been told I have a honest and friendly, honest did I say honest, trustworthy face . ha ha ha pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease choose me. Tino Comment From: palooka5

LomelEZ's post is hillarious! it reminds me of a man I saw standing on 24th & F St with a sign that said "I Bet U Can't Hit Me With A Quarter!" hahaha...I love that there's still humor out there during these hard times. Comment From: edflick

I can't top Donni's photos neither. Quite funny! Anyway I need the Festival of Beers tickets as I just lost my mother 2 months ago, and now had a 2 1/2 relationship and engagement abruptly end. The Festival would be great to keep all this off my mind... Comment From: tkeithbak

Because I just might sing this on stage - if they let me

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Comment From: Babybell

PLEASE? Comment From: unewit

We're buying a house, supposed to close on 4/15-but nothing happens that day, or any day since. A week later and the underwriter has delusions of grandeur, thinking he's the one giving us the money from his own pocket. We've jumped through every hoop & done all they asked. If we don't close by Friday, we're going to need to DROWN our sorrows and PARTY with our friends! Comment From: theundergroundgalleryandstudio

I couldn't think of my own, as I am trying to get my self out of debt. So I was so desperate I stole other people's jokes and quotes to make everyone laugh and ponder. At about 3AM, I was drunk as a skunk. I came home just in time to hear the cuckoo clock cuckoo three times. Quickly coming up with a plan, I cuckooed nine more times, hoping my wife would think it was midnight. I was very proud of myself. The next day, my wife asked what time I got home, and I replied, "Midnight, just like I said." She said that was good, and for some reason she said we needed a new cuckoo clock. When I asked why, she answered, "Last night when it cuckooed midnight, it cuckooed three times, said 'Shit!,' cuckooed four more times, farted, cuckooed three times, cleared its throat, cuckooed two more times and then started giggling." --- Drinking Wisdom "The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid." "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up . . . reading." Henny Youngman "In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer." Dave Barry "Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth." George Burns "Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth." Steve Allen "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with fools." Ernest Hemmingway "If your doctor warns that you have to watch your drinking, find a bar with a mirror." John Mooney "I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver." Phil Harris "Everybody should believe in something -- I believe I'll have another drink." Unknown "Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say, "I'm thirsty, not dirty". Joe Lewis "I told the stewardess liquor for three." - "Who are the other two? - "Oh, there are no other two." James Bond ------- An Irishman named O'Malley went to his doctor after a long illness. The doctor, after a lengthy examination, sighed and looked O'Malley in the eye, and said, "I've some bad news for you. You have cancer, and it can't be cured. I'd give you two weeks to a month to live." O'Malley was shocked and saddened by the news, but of solid character. He managed to compose himself and walk from the doctor's office into the waiting room. There, he saw his son who had been waiting. O'Malley said, "Well son, we Irish celebrate when things are good, and we celebrate when things don't go so well. In this case, things aren't so well. I have cancer, and I've been given a short time to live. Let's head for the pub and have a few pints." After three or four pints, the two were feeling a little less somber. There were some laughs and more beers. They were eventually approached by some of O'Malley's old friends who asked what the two were celebrating. O'Malley told them that the Irish celebrate the good and the bad. He went on to tell them that they were drinking to his impending end. He told his friends, "I've only got a few weeks to live as I have been diagnosed with AIDS." The friends gave O'Malley their condolences, and they had a couple more beers. After his friends left, O'Malley's son leaned over and whispered his confusion. "Dad. I though you said that you were dying from cancer??? You just told your friends that you were dying from AIDS!" O'Malley said, "I am dying of cancer, son. I just don't want any of them sleeping with your mother after I'm gone." ---------- A drunk is driving through the city and his car is weaving all over the road. Eventually a cop pulls him over. "Did you know," says the cop, "that a few intersections back, your wife fell out of your car?" "Oh, thank heavens," sighs the drunk. "For a minute there, I thought I'd gone deaf." ---------- A pig walks into the bar and asks for a pitcher of beer. He drank it all then asked the bartender where the bathroom is. Bartender replies "down the hall and to the left". Another pig walks into the bar and orders 2 pitchers of beer. He finishes them off and then asks where the bathroom is. The bartender replies "down the hall and to the left". Another pig walks into the bar and orders 3 pitchers of beer. Finishing them off he was just going to stand up when the bartender asks him "well aren't you going to ask where the bathroom is?" The pig replies " no, i am going to go wee wee wee all the way home." Comment From: SamExclamationPoint

I feel like a douche. There are some wicked sad stories here, and I just wanted to get wasted on someone else's dime. Doesn't mean I'm withdrawing my entry, mind you. Just acknowledging that, though I'll win the freebies, the tragedies of others won't be forgotten. Okay, they probably will be. But not until at least six, seven beers in. Comment From: Jessstatic

I already submitted something but after reading previous posts Im realizing how bad this economy is..alot of people are in need of free tix...and this economy is bad... So why doesn't the government just mandate a new holiday, maybe even one dedicated to beer. When I tried to go shopping for regular household items at Wal-Mart the week before Easter THAT PLACE WAS PACKED AND NOT SUFFERING DUE TO A HARSH ECONOMY!!!! And it was all because people were buying cards and baskets and a bunch of crap we don't need to be spending money on, yet we do so because its a holiday. So let's tell the government to start creating new holidays because that is sure to help the economy and create a pain in my ass when shopping for toilet paper at 2 in the afternoon at Wal-Mart and not being able to find a parking spot!!! Since I had to suffer at Wal-Mart and thought of this idea I want a true beer holiday!! And it should be called Beer Day. I know there is St. Patrick's Day and Cinco De Mayo which everyone celebrates with beer and whatnot but why not just make it a celebration for beer. It has to be celebrated Nationwide. And Hallmark has to make cards to give to people...and I can walk down the street with a beer in hand like in Vegas with no punishment...And everyone 21 and under gets locked up for the day so I don't have to deal with them. And cabs are free that day like New Year's so I wont end up stuck on railroad tracks thinking its the road and spend the night in a jail cell with a chick named "Molly" who sounds like a dude. So thanks to this contest I came up with a way to improve the economy...Beer Day..and maybe legalizing it...you know what Im talkin about... Comment From: Rainbowgramma

Oh man! A chance for free tickets to Bakersfield beer fest? What can I say? I miss my Btown friends, I miss good music, a miss an ice cold BEER! Hard workin granny needs a summer of LOVE! Comment From: GwyneiraCadwaladr

I am a 22 year old living in Bakersfield, working 2 jobs, going to school, and trying to live up to the expectations I set for myself back in high school. This year has made things extremely difficult with 2 deaths in my family, financial struggles, losing close friends, meeting new people who end up being users or losers, AND seeing my once bright future slipping away due to my own mistakes. Oh did I mention this all happened since January of 2009. However, FREE TICKETS to the Festival of Beers would provide for me one shining moment in the dreary abyss that is my day to day life because it would provide me the opportunity to forget my problems for the day with revelry with some new friends and time with a guy I am wanting to get to know better. Good music, good beer, good people, and most importantly A GOOD FRIGGIN TIME would really help me during this economic and emotional recession. Comment From: RamonZamoraJr

beer in my anti-drug. Comment From: bms7734

I need these tickets because I'm a goddamn alcoholic !!!!!! 4 real . No one else on here would appreicate these tickets more tham me and the shakes that I'm having from alcohol withdrawls . Serious . So if u have it n ur heart 2 heart 2 help out a down and out alcoholic whose too damn proud 2 stand on a street corner and hold up a sign saying " WILL WORK 4 FESTIVAL OF BEERS TICKETS " then please , give me those tickets . Comment From: Larissaf21

I Should win the tickets because i'm 23 and I have never been to any beer festivals. My older sisters go every year so i'll have a DD. I have a young daughter and world love to go out and mingle with strangers. I would also love to try every beer they have! Comment From: vividdreams101

WE NEED FREE TICKETS TO BEER FEST BECAUSE WE HAVE FIVE KIDS,THAT DRIVE US TO DRINKING.PLUS WE NEED TO NETWORK OUR NEW BUSINESS BABY,TO BUT FOOD ON THE TABLE! Comment From: HappyFeet

Yeah, I'm with Twinkie. You have your winner. That pic's hilarious! Comment From: HappyFeet

But keep me in mind if you want to give tix away to an unfunny person. :) And I'll take Twinkie! Comment From: matt

Thanks to everyone who entered the contest! If I had a ticket for everyone, I would surely give them away. It was hard to pick the winners! We have two more BIG contests on the way, so stay tuned! Matt